What’s Dan Stevens up to after starring in his friend Adam Wingard‘s MonsterVerse sequel “Godzilla x King: The New Empire“? Deadline reports it’ll be another genre project, like “Abigail” and the upcoming “Cuckoo,” but this one is on TV. And it’s a big project for Stevens: he’ll star and serve as EP in AMC‘s next season of their horror anthology “The Terror,” subtitled “Devil In Silver.”
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“Halt And Catch Fire” scribe Chris Cantwell teams up with author Victor LaValle for the new season, which adapts LaValle’s novel of the same name. And it’s a doozy of a part for Stevens: a man wrongfully committed to a psychiatric hospital who must contend with society’s mistreated and forgotten, and possibly even the Devil himself. Read on for a synopsis of the upcoming six-episode series:
“The Terror: Devil In Silver” tells the story of Pepper, a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the entity which thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls – but doing so may prove that the worst demons of all live inside him.
Stevens, Cantwell, and LaValle aren’t the only big names working in “Devil In Silver.” “Yellowjackets” director Karyn Kusama will helm the show’s first two episodes and executive produce the series. Ridley Scott and David W. Zucker also executive produce the series through Scott Free Productions, as do Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert for Emjag Productions, Guymon Casady through Entertainment 360, and Brooke Kennedy. AMC aims for a 2025 premiere for the show.
“I’m thrilled to be a part of “The Terror: Devil in Silver,”” Stevens said in a press statement. “This series is a dark symphony of psychological horror and gripping drama, set to rock the audience. Victor LaValle, Christopher Cantwell, and this incredible team have crafted a unique and twisted dance of devils and shadows. I look forward to delivering something epic that will echo through the halls like an iron bell.”
Expect “Devil In Silver” to be another huge hit for AMC after the first two seasons. Season 1 premiered in 2018 to much acclaim, about a British naval expedition that gets stuck in ice while searching for the Northwest Passage. After high marks from critics, the show had a fantastic second life as AMC+‘s most-watched library release ever after its streaming debut. AMC followed up the success with Season 2 in 2019, about a World War II Japanese internment camp. That series also streams on AMC+.
As noted earlier, expect “The Terror: Devil In Silver” to premiere on AMC sometime in 2025. And that won’t be the only show Dan Stevens has out next year. He recently wrapped production on the Netflix limited series Zero Day, a political thriller starring Robert DeNiro, Jesse Plemons, Lizzy Caplan, Angela Bassett, and more. Let’s see which show garners Stevens more accolades.